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Austria’s supreme court has referred the class-action suit launched by Max Schrems to the European Court of Justice (CJEU), which will now have to decide if Mr Schrems can bring a class-action suit on behalf of European or even worldwide Facebook users, the Financial Times reported.

If the CJEU allows a pan-European class action to proceed, it could have significant consequences for Facebook and other online companies operating in Europe, Ars Technica reported.

Facebook has argued that class action is inadmissible for procedural reasons, and that the Austrian courts have no jurisdiction in this case, the company’s European headquarters being in Ireland. The lower courts in Austria had a different view, and now the country’s supreme court is asking the CJEU to provide a definitive ruling on the issues.

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